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The last time I installed slackware I somehow set it up so that the only way I could access slackware was by booting from a floppy, which left the MBR on the hard drive intact. This is something I want to replicate for my Slackware 11.0 installation but for some reason it's not working. I created a boot disk when it asked me to during the install process and then just skipped the Lilo installation. I thought I would be able to boot from the floppy but after selecting the floppy as my first boot option in the bios and restarting with the floppy inserted it just skips by and goes to the default OS. What did I do wrong?

The slackware cd can be use as a rescue disk. Boot the
slackware cd. Read the example message it gives you to boot into your system. Put a good working floppy in the drive. Login as root and type this:

Thanks. You are correct. Bad media was the problem (I've had that problem with both floppies and CDs now on this install). I wasn't aware of being able to use the CD as a rescue disk but it makes sense now. My solution was to reinstall and use new floppys to make the boot disk. I also did not skip lilo this time but instead installed lilo to a floppy. Worked great. Thanks again.